Though it lasts only a few seconds, it’s been called “Disney’s first gay character,” a watershed moment for the entertainment conglomerate. There’s a moment at the end of Disney’s live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast, out March 17, where the villain’s chubby sidekick LeFou starts dancing with a man in drag. “It’s obviously Disney’s first time, which is objectively true,” says Jensine Jones, a Toronto podcaster who identifies as queer. The “least possible” is what the film’s openly gay director Bill Condon called “a nice, exclusively gay moment” in an interview with Attitude magazine. Though some dubbed it “unforgivably late” and “one-dimensional,” others called the film “barrier-breaking,” much like the chatter surrounding LeFou.

Source: thestar March 10, 2017 22:22 UTC